Discuss the establishment of the United Nations and International Declaration of Human Rights, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and their importance in shaping modern Europe and maintaining peace and international order.

Understand the role of military alliances, including NATO and SEATO, in deterring communist aggression and maintaining security during the Cold War.

Trace the origins and geopolitical consequences (foreign and domestic) of the Cold War and containment policy, including the following:

The era of McCarthyism, instances of domestic Communism (e.g., Alger Hiss) and blacklisting

The Truman Doctrine

The Berlin Blockade

The Korean War

The Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis

Atomic testing in the American West, the "mutual assured destruction" doctrine, and disarmament policies

The Vietnam War

Latin American policy

List the effects of foreign policy on domestic policies and vice versa (e.g., protests during the war in Vietnam, the "nuclear freeze" movement).

Analyze the role of the Reagan administration and other factors in the victory of the West in the Cold War.

Describe U.S. Middle East policy and its strategic, political, and economic interests, including those related to the Gulf War.

Examine relations between the United States and Mexico in the twentieth century, including key economic, political, immigration, and environmental issues.

Hello, this is off topic from what we are learning but is it possible if you can post a picture of Ithamer, if you haven't already. I need it for the extra credit out put. Thanks!

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Torey Culbertson

7/6/2016 05:08:35 pm

It is already on the site. Under 8th grade course. I think it can be dragged or dropped.

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Mr.C

7/7/2017 06:45:55 am

Those heroes remind us that the West was saved with the blood of patriots, that each generation must rise up and play their part in its defense and that every foot of ground and every last inch of civilization is worth defending with your life.

Our own fight for the West does not begin on the battlefield. It begins with our minds, our wills and our souls. Today, the ties that unite our civilization are no less vital and demand no less defense than that bare shred of land on which the hope of Poland once totally rested.

Our freedom, our civilization and our survival depend on these bonds of history, culture and memory. And today, as ever, Poland is in our heart, and its people are in that fight.

President Trump in Poland July 6, 2017

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Philosophie: Salon Center

Everyone of us is living history. We all have a story to tell and the ancestors that came before us that carved a way for us to become a new member of civilization. We also are learning that we are all related genetically and culturally in the family of humanity. All people’s past becomes part of all of us, and will always be completely intertwined with the entire world community.

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From time to time we will have some ideas from words that give us wisdom about our world. Writers are some of the most insightful people that understand our modern and ancient world quite well. Feel free to read, think, comment on these ideas. It seems that some of the students would like to debate issues of government, economics, and history. This can be a forum for this idea. Also if you would like to do formal debates in class we need to prepare debate rule and procedures. This can be a start and then we can decide if we will proceed to bring the debates in class on topics we study. Please follow our classroom rules if you decided to write on the blog. Make sure that you ask questions, and be helpful, and mature in all your interactions. This can be a helpful way for you to share what you have learned and what you want to learn, or just share ideas. Also just submit an idea through an email, or web contact, and we can maybe add the idea. Send a picture with the suggestion for the classes. Thank you.

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Photos above left to right: The Solon, by Raphael was a depiction of the place where ideas were discussed and debated. Greek democracy in the public sphere. Here is the philosopher Seneca talking to Nero-Claudius Cesar Drusus Germanicus [Roman Emperor 54-68 BCE]- about society,law, politics, ethics and morality. Anthem for the doomed!

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